Top 10 Fonts Web Designers Love

When I was starting out with Web and graphic design, I was always wondering about the fonts that real designers use. So I conducted a research to find out the most popular fonts designers like to use, their best practices, and also out of personal curiosity, their typographical needs. It would be nice to know which font is good for which situation and today I am sharing with you the results of my research. Through a combination of data collected from Polldaddy, Forrst, Facebook and Twitter, I got feedback from 34 designers from 14 countries answering questions about their favorite fonts and explaining to me why they love them. Below that, check out the Top 10 list of free and premium fonts, and some of the interesting reasons why designers have their favorite fonts. Click on image to see in full scale. Top 10 Favorite Free Fonts Here is the list of Top 10 free fonts mentioned by Web and graphic designers in the survey. Top 10 Premium Fonts What designers are saying Jonny Pigg, United Kingdom
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Using video in the Design School machine workshopKevin Badni is a Senior Lecturer in the Loughborough Design School. Here he describes his experience of producing tutorial videos, funded by a Teaching Innovation Award, in order to show students how to use metal machining equipment. His findings will be of interest to any colleagues whose students need to learn (and remember) how to use specialist equipment with limited technician support. In the Loughborough Design School all first year students (approximately 130) take a core module of Prototyping for Designers within the Machine workshop. They are required to make a PCB holder using equipment in the metal machine shop e.g. In their second year undergraduate students take a core Design & Manufacturing Technologies module where they are required to make a fully working injection moulding tool. As a result of the large numbers of students, the technicians in the workshops were finding it increasingly difficult to give 1 to 1 tuition.

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This is a great article about web friendly fonts. by hassankariemNov 15